Kinsey’s story is about the very discovery of—or at least the discussion of—sex in what was then a far more puritanical country, and it is a subject to which opera is ideally suited and yet with which it has a complicated history.
“America in the 50s had a growl going on in the trousers and beneath the skirts, and Kinsey undressed us so the growl could become the exuberant whoosh and shout out of our sexual freedom.”
– KATE GALE, Librettist
Project History
In the summer of 2015 Opera on Tap presented four fully-staged scenes of the opera-in-development at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We enjoyed a sold-out 5-night run of the program. Building on that success, we presented a 2-night semi-staged reading of the opera in October 2016 at the cell theatre in Manhattan to sold out crowds. To learn more about the Inner Circle’s project evolution, contact us.
Librettist: Kate Gale 
Composer: Daniel Felsenfeld
WORKSHOP PREMIERES In Partnership with the cell (2016) and the Brick (2014)
Stage Direction:
Kira Simring
Joe Hendel
Music Direction:
Mila Henry
Featuring:
Matthew Yohn
Heather Meyer
Andrew Luzania
Jeremy Hirsch
Maria Elena Armijo
Patricia Vital
Cameron Russell
Chelsea Feltman
Joy Jones
Kacey Cardin
Evan McCormack
Seth Gilman
